They had met at Whitesands School, the private secondary school for boys in Lekki, and became friends, making scrappy mangas and comics on notebooks.
On the podcast, they held court on digital design and storytelling in Africa. They interviewed the latest visual effects stars, illustrators, animation magazine founders, and digital design creatives. Averaging thousands of downloads, at its peak the podcast topped charts in the UK and Israel.
Then they met Hamid Ibrahim, a hotshot visual effect designer from Uganda, whose dreams were too big he had run through tons of potential partners. For context, later in a 2018 BBC interview, he bragged that he would “kick Disney’s ass in Africa.”
